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IS CHIEF HEALEY TO BE MADE
COAT IN CRIME INQUIRY?
It looks as though Chief Healey
Is to be made the goat of the present
vice mixup which has resulted, froifr
the publication of the annual report
of the Committee of Fifteen.
Samuel P. Thrasher, sup't of the
committee, says the chief has made
a sorry botch of things since he has
been on the job.
State's Att'y Hoyne believes Hea
ley is responsible for conditions. In
cidentally, Hoyne is going to take hs
evidence against policemen and "fix
ers" before the grand jury which
convenes in June.
But the most serious charge made
against Healey is his attitude in re
gard to vice ki proximity to public
schools. Three months ago tke
morals division of the school board
submitted to Healey a report on the
conditions in some neighborhoods in
which schools were located. That
report seems to have been consigned
to the waste basket. When asked
what he was doing with it Healey
said he was "still investigating."
Thrasher said he didn't like to give
out the names of the schools that
were in the worst neighborhoods for
fear of alarming the parents. It was
learned, however, that one of them
was the Kinzie school, located at
Ohio and La Salle sts.
This is in the East Chicago av. po
lice district. It is this station that
will be the first hit by Hoyne's grand
jury probe. He has already indicted
Francis A. Becker, Thompson lieu
tenant, and "Spike'' Hennessy, sa
loonkeeper, In connection with his
investigation of vice conditions in
that district
Members of the Women's Church
Federation, the Women's City Coun
cil and other reform and civic or
ganizations are going to make an ef
fort to find out why Healey has sup
pressed the report of the school
board.
Mayor Thompson. said today that
Thrasher's action in giving his evi
dence to Hoyne instead of bringing
it to Chief Healey wasn't fair, as it
didn't give the, chief a chance. He
asked who the Committee of Fifteen
consisted of. It is believed that the
mayor is about to break out with an
attack on the committee.
Hoyne says he now has enough
evidence to secure indictments
against several police officers.
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PARADE TO SHOW UP STORIES
. IN HERALD AND TRIB
Heiif uncing the Herald and Tri
bune as deliberately lying in their
stories of the various strikes now
being fought in Chicago, 5,000 strik
ers paraded the Northwest Side yes
terdayto show up the untruth of the
stories. .
' The strikers were terra cotta work
ers, tannery workers, employes of
the Alliance Mfg. Co: and the strik
ers from the Deering branch of the
Harvester works.
TnVin W WnlVor nroa nf Til ! fn
Federation pf Labor, spoke to several
hundred strikers of the harvester
works at 19th and Oakley yesterday.
They were unanimous for continuing3
the strike.
The Western Foundry Co. was hit
by a strike of 1,100 employes. '
JUDGE UHLIR TAKES SLAM AT
WEALTHY CHICAGOANS
Speaking before the congregation
of- the Second Presbyterian church
of Evanston, the richest city per cap
ita in the U. S., Judge Jos. Uhlir of
the morals court took a healthy slam
at wealthy ..Chicagoans. The judge
told how thousands of dollars were
being donated for charitable and
welfare purposes and how the rich
have neglected to contribute for a
shelter homa for dee'fctive women
of the street.
The judge said the social evil was
still a problem in Chicago, that the
abolishment of the segregated dis
trict did not do away with the char
acters of the district